title: Point-of-care ultrasound evaluation of pericardial effusions: does this patient have cardiac tamponade?
abstract: Detection of pericardial effusions using point-of-care focused echocardiography is becoming a common application for clinicians who care for critical patients. Identification of tamponade physiology is of great utility, as these patients require urgent evaluation and management. We describe techniques that the point-of-care clinician sonographer can use to determine the presence or absence of echocardiographic evidence of cardiac tamponade.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Highland General Hospital, 1411 East 31st Street, Oakland, CA 94602, United States. arunnagdev@gmail.com
authors.forename: Arun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagdev
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014463:Ultrasonography